θυσία
thusia
“sacrifice”
Definition
sacrifice (the act or the victim, literally or figuratively)
from G2380 (θύω);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
G:N-F
Greek Noun, Feminine
Occurrences
θυσία appears 29 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?
For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,
Unlike the other high priests, He does not need to offer daily sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people; He sacrificed for sin once for all when He offered up Himself.
At that time some of those present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
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